What Social Media Benefits for Business Can You Expect?

What Social Media Benefits for Business Can You Expect?

Some misguided business people and even marketers dismiss social media saying things like “social media traffic is low value”. Dismissing social media traffic value is like saying that planes suck because you can’t drive them. It’s not just about the…

The Most Important Thing on Social Media: Do Not Pose as, Be a Legit User

The Most Important Thing on Social Media: Do Not Pose as, Be a Legit User

* Can it be that gaming social media sites is really the way to go? You can find such a suggestion all over the place even today. It seems ethics is contrary to marketing.   Legit blogs, bad advice Many…

Niche Social News Sites for Business People and Internet Pros

Niche Social News Sites for Business People and Internet Pros

While old school “one size fits all” social sites like Facebook lose more and more ground, great niche social news sites thrive in many industries. Here are niche social news sites business people and Internet pros should be aware of….

The Most Successful SEO Bashings in Web History

One of the best performing linkbait ideas on the Web today is SEO bashing. It’s an ugly but very successful way of gaining links at the expense of others. It seems the less substance an anti-SEO claim has the more…

Spiritual Link Building Advice by Zen Master Seo-ing Singsun

Tonight I dreamt of Zen Master Seo-ing Singsun again. Last time I had attempted to make an interview but the outcome of my dream was difficult to understand. Zen spirituality is not easy to grasp at all and trapped inside…

SEO for Humans is Not About Google and “Content is King”

SEO for Humans is Not About Google and “Content is King”

Spider, really your preferred audience? * For years Google has been preaching building websites for humans not spiders. Nonetheless in reality Google still relies on website owners to make their pages spider-friendly. To be honest I don’t like big Google…

7 Ways Self Promotion Hurts Yourself on Social Media

7 Ways Self Promotion Hurts Yourself on Social Media

* Many website owners and marketers still make that stupid mistake! They assume that self promotion is the best way to gain links and exposure on social media. You just dump your content on a social site and “done”. Most…

How Can Websites about Boring Topics Succeed on Social Media?

How Can Websites about Boring Topics Succeed on Social Media?

* A reader asked a very important question in the comments! Indeed many people ask it: how can websites about boring topics succeed on social media? Indeed for many people it’s already an assumption that they can’t! The myth goes:…

How to Promote Yourself on Social Media? The Secret of SEO 2

How to Promote Yourself on Social Media? The Secret of SEO 2

* In this post I reveal the secret of SEO 2.0! By 2023 it’s rather known as “social SEO”. At the end of the day social media is about SEO too or SEO 2! It shows how to promote yourself…

Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? It’s the Full Bottle

Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? It’s the Full Bottle

You certainly know the metaphor with the glass and the liquid. You don’t? Let me recount it: For some people the glass is half full and for others half empty. The trick is that both see the same glass and…

The Most Annoying Social Media Mistakes

The Most Annoying Social Media Mistakes

Over the years and on many different social media sites I have seen the same mistakes over and over again. Please! At least try not to repeat these…

How (Not) to Pitch Me on Social Media

How (Not) to Pitch Me on Social Media

With more than 100k+ followers on Pinterest, around 500 connections on LinkedIn and 7k+ on Twitter I guess I’m quite popular by now. For many years my social media popularity was largely ignored by most people. I did not receive…

The 7 Ingredients of a Wildly Successful Blog Post

The 7 Ingredients of a Wildly Successful Blog Post

The following is a contribution brought to you by serial blogger, James Duthie from Online Marketing Banter. Two weeks earlier Tad threw his blog over to me to write a raunchy guest post. It turned out pretty nicely for everyone’s…

The Right Blog at the Right Time

The Right Blog at the Right Time

My blogging journey has been long and winded by now. I feel like looking back and analyzing. It may also help you to find out when it is the right time to start a blog. I started this blog here…

Sex, permission marketing and social media – The ultimate Ménage à trois

This naughty guest post is brought to you by James Duthie from Online Marketing Banter and is in no way endorsed by the fine people at SEO 2.0. What do sex, permission marketing & social media have in common? It…

Short URL Tools

Short URL Tools

What to do when you need short URLs (concise Internet/Web addresses or URL forwarding) for Twitter or elsewhere? Either you use the proprietary t.co shortener by Twitter itself or bit.ly where .ly stands for Libya to keep the fuss at…

Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes

Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes

* URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your website address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there should be! Nonetheless I see the same mistakes all over the…

Top 10 Benefits of Speaking at Search Engine Conferences

Top 10 Benefits of Speaking at Search Engine Conferences

One day instead of working I went to SES Hamburg (a leading search engine conference, a side note for the uninitiated) to have some fun. I showed off my fair trade Panama hat (yes, I tricked you, I don’t actually…

How to Spot Content Theft on Social Media and Elsewhere

How to Spot Content Theft on Social Media and Elsewhere

* Content theft runs rampant on social media. It’s utterly annoying in many cases. Sites like Pinterest are often used by criminals who capitalize on stolen content. On Pinterest this often amounts to bait and switch – an ages old…

How to Find Out How a Blog Performs Over Time

How to Find Out How a Blog Performs Over Time

Why would you want to find out how a blog performs over time? You want to see whether you made some progress. Maybe your blog is even stagnating? You need to know whether it gains traction on social media and…